Joel Kinnaman Confirms He's Joining the Suicide Squad as Rick Flag

Robocop's Joel Kinnaman has confirmed that he will play Rick Flag in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.

"All I can say is that I will be in the movie, and it's going to be amazing," said Kinnaman to French entertainment website Allocine.

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The confirmation follows last month's reports that Kinnaman was being eyed to replace Tom Hardy, who dropped out of the project in January, as the squad's field commander, Rick Flag.

David Ayer will direct the big-screen adaption, which also stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.

UPDATE: Kinnaman chatted with Screen Rant about Suicide Squad over the weekend: "I love the script. It’s super entertaining and David Ayer is a really interesting director," said Kinnaman. "The conversations we’ve had about the characters are really interesting, and he really gets to the bottom of things. Sometimes you’re worried, if you’re going to do a film like that, that it’s just going to be superhero fun but nothing’s going to go under the surface. But here I feel like we can get both."